Comments on: Back to the Future Branstad

By: Pam Meyer

Pam Meyer — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:32:22 +0000

I would like to give an idea of a way the state could save money. Cut back on food stamps when they eat better then we who buy their food somthings wrong I know of a family that gets $400.00 in food stamps a mo.Two adults one baby
they get Hud , Wic, and any thing else they can I think they must keep looking for a job and or better paying job You know as well as anyone you can’t live on WALMART wages somthing needs to be done I and my husband work my jobs hours have been cut we are luckey to have $ 50:00 a week for our needs thats food and personal.We are being tax to death. PLease PLease work on this.Also we tax payer should only have to foot the bill for ONE baby that would slow them down.

By: Mark Gisleson

Mark Gisleson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:46:55 +0000

Branstad also did everything he could to make it easier for IBP to come in and destroy good paying packing house jobs by replacing them with lousy paying packing house jobs. 80,000 blue-collar working Iowans had to leave Iowa in the ’80s because Branstad chased away far more jobs than he created.

Under Branstad, packing house became so unsafe to work in that A.G. Tom Miller sent letters to the Vietnamese and Hispanic communities warning them that packing house jobs did not pay a living wage.

I remember Branstad’s Iowa very well because it was the last time I lived in Iowa. I finally moved away in the late ’80s because there simply were no jobs to be had in Terry Branstad’s Iowa.

And for all the talk about liberal media, it was the “liberal” Des Moines Register that waged a war against Roxanne Conlin, paving the way for a Branstad victory.

By: All4Iowa

All4Iowa — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:03:47 +0000

I was too young to vote for Branstad also. I never even realized that he had a pro-abort for a running mate until now. Interesting what you learn twenty years later. All I know is that a lot of rural schools closed under the Branstad administration. Not good.

By: Raymond V Banner

Raymond V Banner — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:49:28 +0000

I am not writing this to attack Terry Branstand, but to share my disappointment with his last years as governor.

I was living in Des Moines and active in the Right-to-Life movement and other conservative causes when Terry Branstand was first elected. I supported Terry Branstand until in a later re-election he chose pro-abortion Joy Corning to be his lieutenant governor. Since both the governor and lieutenant governor had to be voted for as a unit, I sadly skipped over the vote for governor that year.

By: friendsofdavidhoward

friendsofdavidhoward — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:32:42 +0000

People are definitely interested and watching this race. I have been stopped in the grocery store parking lot where people question me about the Vander Plaats sticker. They give him a thumbs up for the answers I give– that he is for traditional marriage and that yes, he will balance the budget. Let’s hope Bob’s pro-life stance does not get de-emphasized in this election cycle where people are so concerned about the economy and about the current gay marriage debacle in Iowa.

By: iowanforabetteriowa

iowanforabetteriowa — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:25:31 +0000

Nothing like Branstad running around Iowa in his round about scooter.I wonder how many miles he can go on one ? He was elected in 1982 some 27 years ago had his day in the sun. I do not want a retreaded Bumstead round 5 4 terms was more than enough. Im supporting Bob Vander Platts to lead Iowa back curb the massive spending that Culver did. Culver just don’t get it you can’t keep expanding government meanwhile revenues keep shrinking. I think there could have been cuts made without making Iowan’s less safe by laying off highway patrolmen.